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In another tragic case of mismanagement EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) has decided to suspend it’s approval for SriLankan Airlines due to serious audit finding at SriLankan Airlines. As per our source there were several very serious Level 1 findings which show the Airline has violated the rules set by EASA.

This decision according to a senior Captain will severally affect the Airline, which is already a loss making white elephant.All maintenance activities will now be compelled to be outsourced to nearby countries. Already 4R-ALA A330-200 Airbus is in Indonesia at the Garuda maintenance facility. SriLankan is paying USD 95,000.00 per aircraft only for Labour charges, excluding material costs. There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for the Airline and the Taxpayers with the current CEO and the Board and sadly due to the inaction of the Prime Minister.

If i am not mistaken there wont be many other airline's aircraft and other airline's passengers at CMB during the departure of EK A380 at 22:10 hours. If EK is testing the capability of A380 service to CMB then EK will be using the air bridges. Most of the UL aircraft leaves CMB around 6pm/7pm to Gulf and India and they return to CMB after 11pm.

There are quite a few departures at that time TK, EY, WY, MU, QR, 9W...but my main concern is baggage handling...CMB baggage handling sucks specially in arrivals...belts can hardly manage a 747

Is Emirates A380 (EK654/655) on August 14th just oneoff flight or.. will they continue to operate at least week a flight
As of now this not in their (Emirates) schedule beyond 14/08/2017.

EK is in the habit of sending their A380 to airports that generally do not get A380 traffic (sometimes at the invitation of the airport, like they did with ORD last year to test the infrastructure readiness).

Somehow ORD ground crew managed to scrape the A380 on that instance.

This could be a similar attempt by EK to test the ability of CMB to handle the aircraft.

SriLankan Airlines starts five times a week non-stop flights to Hong Kong, daily non-stop flights to Guangzhou, China, increasing flights to Bangkok, Thailand from daily to three times a day, to cater to the demand and enhance network connectivity and increasing flights to Delhi, India from daily to 11 times a week.

Emirates to operate one-off A380 flight to Colombo

Emirates’ iconic A380 aircraft will make a one-off landing at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake, on Monday 14th August as the global airline joins local authorities in the celebration of the airport’s resurfaced runway.

Emirates’ iconic A380 aircraft will make a one-off landing at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake, on Monday 14th August as the global airline joins local authorities in the celebration of the airport’s resurfaced runway.

SriLankan Airlines starts five times a week non-stop flights to Hong Kong, daily non-stop flights to Guangzhou, China, increasing flights to Bangkok, Thailand from daily to three times a day, to cater to the demand and enhance network connectivity and increasing flights to Delhi, India from daily to 11 times a week.